Dan Davis (1745)

Born 17 Sep 1745 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut

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Biography

Dan DAVIS "Dan" was born 17 Sep 1745 in Derby, New Haven, CT. He married Hannah GUNN.

Sources

• Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 321. " ... Gunn ... Hannah b 8 Oct 1744 mar/1 Edward Smith of Derby, Conn., mar/2 Dan Davis."

• Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 596. "Dan (twin), b. 17 Sept. 1745 ... Probably m. Hannah (Gunn) Smith, widow of Edward Smith, who m. (3) Jeremiah Gillett."

• Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 215. "DAVIS ...

• Dan, s. John & Sarah, b. Jan. 10, 1709/10
• Dan, m. Ruth Wooster, Dec. 6, 1738
• Dan, [twin with Ruben], s. Dan & Ruth, b. Sept. 17, 1745
• Daniel, [twin with Joseph], s. Nathan & Eunice, b. Mar. 20, 1746."

• Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 434. "Daniel, son of Dan and Ruth (Wooster) Davis, married Hannah, dau. of Capt. John and Eunice (Hull) Wooster, of Oxford, Ct., about 1773. Resided in Derby ..."

• Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 659.

• Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 215. "Dan, [twin with Ruben], s. Dan & Ruth, b. Sept. 17, 1745

• Daniel, [twin with Joseph], s. Nathan & Eunice, b. Mar. 20, 1746."

• Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 433. "born Sept. 17, 1743."

• George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), p. 15. "born September 17, 1743."

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. The "Other Gilletts", The American Genealogist (1949) Vol. 25, Page 179